Thursday, March 17, 2011

The AIS's advertising campaigns are generally aimed at potential users of the facility aka professional athletes, school leavers looking to gain scholarships or education at the AIS, people that play sports on a national level and general sports enthusiasts.

A lot of this audience will be located interstate and not in Canberra or the ACT, generally they will be fairly young adolescent to young adults who are still in their sporting prime and looking to study.

I think I could produce images that are more appropriate for the target audience for the client by making more time appropriate photographs that are vibrant in colour, youthful and capture a sense of motion, action and energy which are key attributes of the institute of sport. The images will remain professional of course to reflect the institutions world class reputation.

The Australian Institute of Sport's main form of advertisement is provided through the utilisation of a government website (http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/). Although the website contains mostly text, there is some imagery used throughout in the form of documentary style photographs (Which I personally don't think are all that good/could use updating).

The images used on the website are mainly action shots and sports portraits and are miminal in comparison to text, there are a few architectural shots of the facilities but they are used sparingly. All the images are really small and poor resolution as well.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Australian Institute of Sport is 'Australia's premiere sports training institute'. It's main institute is located here in Canberra, however the AIS has also got institutes located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney & Perth.

The institute trains elite athletes with services available such as skilled coaches and state of the art facilities. The AIS also caters for 34 sports programmes in 26 different sports.

AIS was put forward in 1981 and has since trained many olympic and global champions to go on and be successful.

The AIS employs over 190 staff, including 70 coaches to directly support AIS athletes. In addition to coaching staff, the AIS employs a large number of staff who work in Sports Science and Sports Medicine.

The sports catered to by AIS:

Athletes with a disability

Basketball

Canoeing

Cricket

Diving

Football - Women

Hockey

Paralympic Alpine Skiing

AFL

Beach Volleyball

Cycling

Football-men

Gymnastics

Hockey

Netball

Paralympic Swimming

Rowing

Rugby (League and union)

Sailing

Softball

Squash

Swimming

Track & Field

Triathalon

Tennis

Volleyball

Water polo

Winter sports

All information taken from the AIS website; http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/